The Final Jeopardy answer for today is...

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sorensonfan41 — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:21:27 GMT

I couldn't really come up with a tutorial.......because I don't really use any kind of system to play scratchers. I either start out with the newest games or go with whatever I feel like playing or go with a gut instinct......just like with that $5 $500,000 Riches $50 winner.......those tickets caught my eye and I hadn't played those in a long time, so I decided to slow play them. Sometimes I'll start with a game that's given me good luck in the past.....sometimes I'll start off with a game that I've never won much off of in the past. To be honest....had I not hit that $48 winner on that Aces & 8s and I had hit a cash winner.......the $5 $500,000 Hold 'Em Poker tickets might have been what I played next (being that I haven't played them in a while and I did hit $30 on one before).... [ More ]

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Shawn67 — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:19:07 GMT

I don't know how in the world you keep doing this!! I play quite a few scratchers (usually right after I lose in the Pick-3), and I only win once in a very long while. Maybe you should put up a tutorial in the scratchers forum!!

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JAP69 — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:12:33 GMT

Congrats

Original Blog Entry: The Final Jeopardy answer for today is...

sorensonfan41 — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:37:04 GMT

[cue up Final Jeopardy clue pop up sound]

By spending $10 slow playing tickets, hitting nothing but duds so far, and having a lady buy 2 of the same kind while you're slow playing and walking out, and you taking another $2 to buy ticket #55, the next ticket in line, you'll have this.

[insert Jeopardy think music]

If you have the question What is a $48 winner? , you'd be correct.

The tobacco mart didn't have the new $1 Triple Win tickets, so I started off my slow playing with the new tickets that they did have....the $2 Aces 8s. I had bought my 5th one (having not won a thing off the 1st ones) when a lady came in, bought a carton of smokes, and asked what I was playing. I showed her and we chatted for a few seconds....and I mentioned that I had won $50 last week from this very tobacco mart. She looked at the ticket I was playing again and then asked the cashier for 2 of them. I then scratched mine off as she was walking out of the store. It was another dud, so I pulled out 2 $1 bills and asked for another one. I scratched off the prizes (after scratching the validation numbers at the bottom first) and noticed an unusual pattern of prizes. I saw 2 $1s on previous tickets thinking I had a winner when it actually wasn't. However.....I saw 4 $10s on the ticket and had a very good feeling. I scratched off the stuff above the prizes and discovered the 8s above the 2 $10s in the top row and immediately said out loud to myself I've got a $48 winner! .....and I was right after scratching off the bottom row of stuff.

I still had some dough left in my wallet, so, after eating lunch, I went to a package store on the way back home. I saw that they had both of the new tickets, so I bought some of each. I spent $13 and bought 4 of the Aces 8s and bought 5 of the $1 Triple Win tickets. I included the only winners from that bunch in this picture.......and it was a very nice winner indeed on the $1 Triple Win.

I never thought I'd hit 2 very nice winners within a couple of hours of each other like I did today with the $48 and $21 winners.

My my.....this is 2 Saturdays in a row that I've hit some big ones.

Until next time, may you hit some nice winners for some nice moolah.

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